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2011-05-14 First Day Jitters and Hopes 54:31
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
This talk is about addressing the first day of a week of intensive meditation practice. Exploration and instructions on working with challenges around gathering inspiration to deepen practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Steadying the Mind, Opening to Insight

2011-05-08 This is Just About Walking 66:40
Larry Yang	Download Listen
All about walking meditation as seen through the lens of the Eightfold Path to Freedom. NOTE: There are some audio quality issues for the first 18:36 minutes...clean thereafter.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) : Spring Vipassana Retreat

2011-05-06 Working With Mental States 64:58
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia	Download Listen
Through meditation we become more skilled at identifying mental states - discovering what we are experiencing and learning to relate appropriately.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : May 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-05-06 20 minutes of meditation and Q&A on becoming, the nature of mind/awareness 63:13
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2011-05-05 Skillful Inclinations: Parami 64:25
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Through sustained resolve in terms of meditation - a virtue skillful inclination can dissolve aspects of self-view.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2011-05-05 Beyond the Shaping of the Mind 53:07
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
This talk links the concerns of our life, the tendencies of our minds, and the practice of meditation. Martin explores the way our conditioning and mental attitudes colour all our perceptions, and explores how dharma practice invites us to see through our acquired mental shaping, beyond our ideas, to meet life as directly, as deeply, as freely as possible.
Gaia House : Whole Life, Whole Practice, Nothing Left Out

2011-05-01 Letting go of Disturbance, Deepening Stillness 60:07
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
To deepen our meditation practice we need to work skillfully with whatever is a disturbance -- whether it's the gross forms of the hindrances, or the subtlest manifestations of restlessness. This subtle restlessness often comes from a primal anxiety. We need to recognize this and find the stillness in our experience. Then we can truly be with things as they are.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration

2011-04-30 Standing Meditation 19:45
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2011-04-24 Morning Sit 29:14
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Guided Meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-04-22 Thoughts about Thinking 1:31:07
Wes Nisker	Download Listen
Also Big Sky Meditation; Q&A-including reflections on Ancestor Walk and Truth Mandala from day before
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : World as Lover, World as Self

2011-04-22 Ethics and Compassion 67:45
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Looking at the three trainings of ethics, meditation and wisdom and their application in daily life with the help of ethics and compassion.
Gaia House : The Zen Retreat

2011-04-19 Four Elements Meditation—Instructional Talk and Guided Meditation 41:58
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
This talk introduces the Four Elements Meditation as a systematic method for developing mindfulness of the body. A guided meditation and instructions are provided that reveal the body as a dynamic interaction of characteristics classified as earth (hardness, roughness, heaviness, softness, smoothness, lightness), water (flowing, cohesion), fire (heat, cold), and wind (supporting, pushing).
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley : Tuesday Talks—2011

2011-04-19 Where the Mind has Nowhere to Rest 65:42
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
Hui-neng's definition of sitting meditation; the middle way as the avoiding of the 'deadends' of existence and non-existence; the Greek philosopher Pyrrho as an example of a similar attitude; Hui-ko asks Bodhidharma to 'set his mind at rest'; the infinity of things; emptiness as the unfindability of things; to question 'what is this' is the practice of such emptiness that neither affirms nor denies anything.
Gaia House : The Zen Retreat

2011-04-16 Body Awareness Meditation 35:55
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2011-04-14 Life is Practice, Practice is Life 53:04
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
We often find that we have unconsciously divided our experience into times of "practice" and "life". This talk discusses ways to integrate life and practice both on and off the meditation cushion.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : April 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-04-13 Big Mind Guided Meditation 49:09
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Awareness Pure and Simple: Insight Meditation Retreat

2011-04-12 Instructions and Guided Meditation - Day 4 63:55
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Awareness Pure and Simple: Insight Meditation Retreat

2011-04-04 Meditation Instructions 1:36:07
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : Vivekananda

2011-04-02 Mindfulness Of The Body 48:24
Chas DiCapua	Download Listen
How to skillfully use the body as a meditation object on and off retreat, in order to gain the wisdom it has to offer.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Freedom That Includes Everything: Insight Meditation Retreat

2011-04-01 Connecting with the Earth 27:26
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
Guided Meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-04-01 Dana, Sila, Bhavana. 55:28
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
Dana (generosity) and Sila (ethical conduct) are seen as the essential foundation for Bhavana (meditation). This talk explores this relationship, with an emphasis on the practice of generosity as a practice of freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : April 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-03-31 Metta Meditation Instructions 35:37
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Buddhism and the Twelve Steps

2011-03-26 Instructions: Walking and Sitting Meditation 52:22
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
This talk also includes Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House : A Path of Peace and Happiness - Dana Retreat

2011-03-20 The Four Noble Truths 48:25
Norman Feldman	Download Listen
An exploration of the Buddha's Four Noble Truths, giving the meditation practice a context and intention. the relationship between dukkha, clinging and liberation is discussed.
Gaia House : Insight Meditation and Qi Gong

2011-03-18 Opening Talk for Insight Meditation and Qi Gong Retreat 1:24:43
Norman Feldman	Download Listen
This talk also includes Brad Richecouer
Gaia House : Insight Meditation and Qi Gong

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